I have my own unproved theory that the increase in problems with focus and attention spam of children are not from screens, tik tok, or infinite scroll. They are from advertisements, a format deliberately crafted to be short, intense and to mess with your brain so you buy.

Advertisements in media have been growing over the years and becoming more hypnotic and intense also.

It’s always sad seeing AI on AI crime.

I have like 30 different services running on the same machine.

That’s why you want to use some container solution, I use docker for simplicity.

Also raspberry pi is not great for self hosting. Any cheap x64 machine will be much more powerful for the same price, and have less compatibility issues.

Maybe it’s something of the people I socialize with. But we don’t look at phones when we gather. It’s impolite.

The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.

Sex is cool but boardgames are just better.

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Example of California hydro generation

Both are needed for a healthy power structure.

Wind, solar even with batteries have low innertia (actually no innertia at all by themselves). If you want to resist turbulences on the power network without free innertia resistance by turbines (nuclear, gas, hydro), you need expensive equipment to generate that innertia other ways, and it can get quite expensive.

Hydro would be great but it’s highly seasonal.

Try to find a forest where I can go live like an animal. Let’s see if I can even make it 6 months.

Most biologist are women if I recall correctly.

If someone talks me about a discovery in biology I think my mind would automatically picture a woman as the author.

This is a good idea. Knowing that nvidia bought huggingface, I’m sure that they will start banning and/or paywalling more models there sooner than later.

Google needs to be sued under GLP violation. And some judge with a spine needs to put a billionaire fine to them.

disengage

A country where the alt right is on the rise.

A country where everything is better than 30 years ago I would assume the alt right would have probably not growth that much.

Housing cost increase, for instance, is happening in all Europe, which is one of the places of the world where the alt right is skyrocketing their electoral results.

For instance Germany, where latest elections have shown a worrying rise of AfD has this chart of house prices.

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The graph shows a blimp down in 2024, but in recent data the prices are already rising again in 2026.

Also my country is not a neighborhood, it’s a 50 million people place, and one of the biggest countries of the EU who might fall to an alt right government as soon as 2027. And live being much better in other countries is not something people who vote here take into consideration, they value how their own lives have been getting better or worse. Saying that “spme other country in the world” is going better have zero relevance when talking about alt right rising in specific countries.

Google have been years seeing how far they can push linux GPL.

At this rate android will end up being closed source.

I don’t think we can objectively say everything is better.

Some things are better, but some are worse. The overall I agree is better but there are some harsh realities that are real, not product or any information warfare.

Housing prices are just much higher. The amount of years needed to work to pay off a house are just much more than it used to.

Salaries are, overall, lower when you account for inflation. Same amount of working hours let you consume less food, fuel, energy and amenities compared to a few decades ago.

On a personal note, even my salary has been increasing below inflation rate. I used to be able to apply for social aid, and I’m no longer able to because they say my income is over the limit. I’m earning less and still got excluded from social programs.

There are many things better. We have more freedoms, more knowledge, we are healthier. There are many great things now compared to before. But it is objectively true that some matters, mostly economical ones, have gone worse for the average worker.

For most countries where the alt right is rising, and specially among alt right voters, “immigration” is among the first perceived problems in the polls.

Most people I’ve talk that vote alt right don’t really care about the rest of the agenda of the party they vote, they are even against it, but they vote alt right because they perceive immigration as a severe issue.

So, for the people who vote for those parties, that’s the main reason they are doing it.

Now, why they perceive immigration as such a threat as to vote for something they don’t even like? That’s a much more complex issue, that I think it has a lot to do with the fall in socioeconomic progress many countries are living right now.

5 years the last one.

The hardware, including battery, worked great. But it has been lacking updates for some years and I’m worried about vulnerabilities. LineageOS was also not available for this phone.

I bought a phone with 7 years updates and my initial intention is keeping it for 7 years. More if an stable and secure version of LineageOS is available down the line.

I remember cleverbot back in the day, and thinking that was peak.

What I meant for “multilingual internet” is what companies like Reddit or Google are doing. Forcing automatic translates to the user language automatically.

For Reddit this means that, as people write there in whatever language instead of the language of the subreddit, when you use the site outside of the official frontend you see a mix of languages. This means that you search for things in one language and get results written in another language, and you might have been looking for something in a specific language, but as automatic translated websites take over they take away your ability to choose in what language do you want to search things. On youtube for instance I cannot longer know in what language the video is going to be spoken. I might look for videos in one language and get mislead by the automatically translated title, and click into the video and get a shitty AI voiceover instead of the original voice of the video.

For instance I used to search things in Spanish to get “local” websites. Now I search in spanish and I see a bunch of Reddit post about the USA, because reddit forces the translated results into googles feed, and google accepts it. Searching something in a specific language is becoming harder and harder because more and more websites are going multilingual, taking in and serving out any and all languages and doing a bunch of automatic translations in the middle.

Maybe your perception is different. But for me this forced multilingual internet (and what I mean to this is that the frontends automatically translate the content in the business layer) makes for a poor experience with far less freedom and power over the content I choose to see, compared to what I had before.

And also the appreciation, that this might lead to more people not seeing the need of learning a second international language. Which, for me, is one of the most important skills in life, as it gives you the ability to communicate with so many people without being dependant on intermediates.